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A weightlifting belt is a leather or nylon belt, usually about 4″ wide, that are worn around the belly when performing heavy lifts such as squats, deadlifts, or Olympic lifts. They look like this: Weightlifting belts can be useful tools, but aren’t for everyone and aren’t appropriate in all situations. If you have a belt…

CrossFit is about functional fitness. It’s about making your body a better movement machine, and making you better able to perform tasks in the real world. To the extent that CrossFit is a sport, it’s a sport that rewards those who prepare for a broad variety of physical challenges. The winners of CrossFit competitions…

Due to popular demand, we’re switching up our childcare hours: We’ll now be offering childcare on weekdays at the 5:30 p.m. class, and on Saturdays at the 9:00 a.m. class for the low, low price of $5 per child. Note that due to liability concerns, children under 12 may not be left unsupervised in the…

This may sound weird, but procrastination is my key tactic in maintaining healthy habits. You see, I’m often tempted to indulge. On the rare occasion when I find myself with some free time in the afternoon (which is the case as I write this), I’m tempted to veg out in front of a movie on…

Some people want to look like CrossFitters, but don’t necessarily want to do the hard work that CrossFit entails. So, for those of you who envy Dan Bailey’s fashion sense, but not his work capacity, this post is for you. How to Look Like a CrossFitter (without actually being one) Step 1: Wear long socks…

Sleep is arguably the most important aspect of recovery. Sleep has been shown to be important for keeping stress low, improving your memory, helping you exercise good judgment, lowering your risk of disease, and improving athletic performance. We’ve established, then, that sleep is good. The question is how do you get enough sleep, and how…

We’ve talked a lot in class recently about the hook grip. The hook grip is very useful for the olympic lifts — and, in my opinion, for the deadlift — but as a group we have some confusion about when, why, and how to use the hook grip. So let’s take a quick look at…

We’re getting together a group to compete at the Pantheon Games in Miami on November 2-3. If you’ve been thinking about competing, this is your chance to do so with a group of your fellow Manatees (and to make a fun weekend trip out of it!). The competition has three differently scaled divisions for individual…

There are tons of blog posts out there that will tell you how to eat paleo: What foods to eat, what to avoid, recipes to try, etc. I’m not a chef and I stick to a pretty simple paleo philosophy (if you could, in theory, eat it raw, then you can eat it), so I…

We will be cleaning out the lost and found crate this weekend. Please check the lost and found for any items that may be yours by Saturday. (If you don’t know where the lost and found is, it’s in the brown milk crate underneath the desk by the cubbies.) All items still in the lost…